The harmonic minor has the raised 7th which is F double sharp. G sharp minor shares the same key signature as B major, which is F sharp, C sharp, G sharp, D sharp and A sharp. it only includes any sharps or flats that are in the key signature, no others (like the natural minor, with the difference being that the natural minor follows the key signature with no extra accidentals, both ascending and descending.) When descending, these accidentals are cancelled and it just follows the key signature, i.e. When ascending, it includes the raised 6th and 7th degrees of the scale as accidentals. The melodic minor scale also shares the same key signature as the relative major. You can find more explanation about this in the article mentioned above. When working out the 7th degree of the scale, bear in mind whether or not the key signature affects it. If we raise it by a semitone, we get G sharp. For example, in an A minor scale, G would be the 7th degree of the scale (because A is 1, B is 2, C is 3, D is 4, E is 5, F is 6, G is 7). Count the key note as 1 when counting the degrees of the scale. the 7th note up from the key note of the minor scale is sharpened by a semitone. The harmonic minor scale has the same key signature as the relative major, plus the raised 7th degree of the scale. (The natural minor scale is another form of minor scale which only shares the same key signature as the relative major, but doesn't include any accidentals.) To find out how to work out the key signatures of all the relative majors, and to see a video demonstration for each major scale, click here.Īs well as sharing the same key signature as the relative major harmonic and melodic minor scales include accidentals.

Read this article for an explanation of relative majors and minors. Minor scales share the same key signature as their relative majors. This page has been created with the specific needs of my own students in mind, but other visitors to my website are also very welcome to use these free resources. Due to popular demand amongst my piano students, I have provided video demonstrations and notation with fingering for all of the harmonic and melodic minor scales, two octaves.

E flat minor scale